Orcs!: The Gift #1

Christine Larsen returns to her beloved orc world with this first issue of Orcs!: The Gift, published by KaBOOM! in 2023. The cover sets an immediately gripping tone — a pack of scrappy, expressive orcs huddles together in the foreground while an enormous, glowing-eyed wolf snarls down at them from a cavernous, mushroom-lined darkness, blue ethereal flames curling around its muzzle. Larsen's rich, painterly linework and deep crimson-and-cobalt palette make this a genuinely striking opener that fans of her warm-but-wild fantasy storytelling will want on their shelf.